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UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
IN REPLY REFER TO:
January 27, 1964
Memorandum
To: Secretary of the Interior
From: Director
Subject: Proposed Bridge Canyon Dam
In connection with your consideration of the Pacific Southwest Water Plan, I thought we should highlight for you a sequence of events which I believe are highly important in helping you arrive at a final decision.
(1) The Grand Canyon National Park was established by the Act of February 26, 1919. In the debate on this legislation (a copy of an extract from the Legislative History of Section 7 of the Act of February 26, 1919, is enclosed), Senator Hayden (then Representative Hayden) made the following comments:
Mr. Hayden: The provision contained in the bill would authorize the Secretary of the Interior, when consistent with the primary purposes of the park--that is, not to impair the scenic beauty--to allow storage reservoirs to be constructed for conserving the water of the Colorado River for irrigation purposes. I understand that there are in the canyon a number of reservoir sites where it is proposed in time to come, when full utilization is made of that stream, to build reservoirs for the storage of water. If that can be done without disturbing the primary purpose of the park, there is authority in this bill to do so. {Emphasis supplied.}
(2) The Grand Canyon National Monument was established by presidential Proclamation on December 22, 1932. Subsequently, in a letter of January 11, 1933, copy enclosed, from former Director Horace M. Albright to Dr. Elwood Mead, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Mr. Albright said, in part:
As I see it, the Bridge Canyon Project is in no way affected by the Grand Canyon National Monument proclamation ....We have had in mind all the time the

UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
WASHINGTON 25, D. C.
IN REPLY REFER TO:
January 27, 1964
Memorandum
To: Secretary of the Interior
From: Director
Subject: Proposed Bridge Canyon Dam
In connection with your consideration of the Pacific Southwest Water Plan, I thought we should highlight for you a sequence of events which I believe are highly important in helping you arrive at a final decision.
(1) The Grand Canyon National Park was established by the Act of February 26, 1919. In the debate on this legislation (a copy of an extract from the Legislative History of Section 7 of the Act of February 26, 1919, is enclosed), Senator Hayden (then Representative Hayden) made the following comments:
Mr. Hayden: The provision contained in the bill would authorize the Secretary of the Interior, when consistent with the primary purposes of the park--that is, not to impair the scenic beauty--to allow storage reservoirs to be constructed for conserving the water of the Colorado River for irrigation purposes. I understand that there are in the canyon a number of reservoir sites where it is proposed in time to come, when full utilization is made of that stream, to build reservoirs for the storage of water. If that can be done without disturbing the primary purpose of the park, there is authority in this bill to do so. {Emphasis supplied.}
(2) The Grand Canyon National Monument was established by presidential Proclamation on December 22, 1932. Subsequently, in a letter of January 11, 1933, copy enclosed, from former Director Horace M. Albright to Dr. Elwood Mead, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Mr. Albright said, in part:
As I see it, the Bridge Canyon Project is in no way affected by the Grand Canyon National Monument proclamation ....We have had in mind all the time the